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# אַכְזָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H393

**cruel** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cruel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/393/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַכְזָר²: adj. cruel, fierce [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/393/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. cruel, fierce, of poison (רֹאשׁ) Dt 32:33; elsewhere of men, fierce Jb 41:2; as subst. = a cruel one Jb 30:21 (of God), La 4:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cruel (2); become\] (into) cruel (1); fierce (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.33/#tree)

חֲמַ֥ת תַּנִּינִ֖ם יֵינָ֑ם וְרֹ֥אשׁ פְּתָנִ֖ים אַכְזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[is.the\].venom of.serpents wine their and.\[the\] poison of.cobras cruel

*JPS 1917:* Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.

[Job 30:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.21/#tree)

תֵּהָפֵ֣ךְ לְאַכְזָ֣ר לִ֑י בְּעֹ֖צֶם יָדְךָ֣ תִשְׂטְמֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* you.change.yourself into.\[one\] cruel to me with the.might your.hand your you are.hostile.towards.me

*JPS 1917:* Thou art turned to be cruel to me; with the might of Thy hand Thou hatest me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/393.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/393/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).